RELEASE DATE: July 2015
PRICE: $8.00 (eBook) / $25.00 (Hardcover)
ORDER: Inkshares
How it begins...
After the fall of the Roman Empire, chaos and bloodshed swept across the remains of western civilization like a plague. Consumed by feudal warfare, Europe plunged into a centuries-long era of illiteracy and cultural desolation from which few historical records survived.
Some believe that the true history of this dark age was deliberately concealed by its surviving scholars. Too incredible to be believed, too terrible to be retold.
Until now.
Hi! My name is Gary and I'm a screenwriter turned author.
My best-known work is my original screenplay for The Book of Eli, the post-apocalyptic thriller starring Denzel Washington. I also co-wrote the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth, and helped create Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, for which I was the co-recipient of a BAFTA award for Best Story. Most recently, I served as screenwriter for the upcoming Star Wars standalone film which will be released next year. Currently I'm writing the movie adaptation of the Mark Millar comic Starlight for 20th Century Fox.
I can’t tell you how excited I am to present to you my first novel, Abomination. I chose to write this particular story as a book because I wanted to create a story that I could present to an audience in its purest form. While a screenplay is the blueprint for something you hope many other people will transform into the finished product that is a film, a novel is itself the finished product, an opportunity for a writer to tell their story directly to an audience. It's been a really fun and refreshing experience to do that with Abomination.
Set in England during the reign of Alfred the Great, Abomination has got magic, monsters, a heroic knight with a tragic secret, and a headstrong young woman on a vengeful quest.
As King Alfred struggles to defend his beleaguered realm from hordes of Viking invaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury stumbles upon an ancient secret — a dark and mysterious magic that could turn the tide of the war in England’s favor. But when exposure to the magic corrupts the Archbishop, Alfred commands his greatest knight, Sir Wulfric, to hunt the mad priest down — with terrible consequences to follow...
With Abomination, I wanted to combine the trappings of a good old-fashioned monster yarn with more substantive human themes. At its core the story is, I hope, a meditation on the powers of forgiveness, mercy, humility, kindness, and love. It is the tale of two very different, but equally tragic, heroes, each on their own path to damnation, but who ultimately find salvation within each other. I hope you enjoy their journey together.
The amazing Jason Gurley is designing the cover.
For those of you who don't know Jason Gurley, he's one of the most talented cover designers around and also a damn-fine writer himself. Jason no longer designs covers but has agreed to come out of retirement (much like our protagonist, Sir Wulfric) to design the cover for Abomination. I'm excited to work with Jason on a final cover for the book in collaboration with readers.
Production schedule
Abomination is fully written. Once funded, we're going to do a quick copy edit, work on cover design (something we've held off on because we want to go through the process with our backers and readers) and get the book into your hands as quickly as possible. Hard copies will hopefully ship within a few months, with the digital version much sooner than that.
PRICE: $8.00 (eBook) / $25.00 (Hardcover)
ORDER: Inkshares
How it begins...
After the fall of the Roman Empire, chaos and bloodshed swept across the remains of western civilization like a plague. Consumed by feudal warfare, Europe plunged into a centuries-long era of illiteracy and cultural desolation from which few historical records survived.
Some believe that the true history of this dark age was deliberately concealed by its surviving scholars. Too incredible to be believed, too terrible to be retold.
Until now.
Hi! My name is Gary and I'm a screenwriter turned author.
My best-known work is my original screenplay for The Book of Eli, the post-apocalyptic thriller starring Denzel Washington. I also co-wrote the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth, and helped create Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, for which I was the co-recipient of a BAFTA award for Best Story. Most recently, I served as screenwriter for the upcoming Star Wars standalone film which will be released next year. Currently I'm writing the movie adaptation of the Mark Millar comic Starlight for 20th Century Fox.
I can’t tell you how excited I am to present to you my first novel, Abomination. I chose to write this particular story as a book because I wanted to create a story that I could present to an audience in its purest form. While a screenplay is the blueprint for something you hope many other people will transform into the finished product that is a film, a novel is itself the finished product, an opportunity for a writer to tell their story directly to an audience. It's been a really fun and refreshing experience to do that with Abomination.
Set in England during the reign of Alfred the Great, Abomination has got magic, monsters, a heroic knight with a tragic secret, and a headstrong young woman on a vengeful quest.
As King Alfred struggles to defend his beleaguered realm from hordes of Viking invaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury stumbles upon an ancient secret — a dark and mysterious magic that could turn the tide of the war in England’s favor. But when exposure to the magic corrupts the Archbishop, Alfred commands his greatest knight, Sir Wulfric, to hunt the mad priest down — with terrible consequences to follow...
With Abomination, I wanted to combine the trappings of a good old-fashioned monster yarn with more substantive human themes. At its core the story is, I hope, a meditation on the powers of forgiveness, mercy, humility, kindness, and love. It is the tale of two very different, but equally tragic, heroes, each on their own path to damnation, but who ultimately find salvation within each other. I hope you enjoy their journey together.
The amazing Jason Gurley is designing the cover.
For those of you who don't know Jason Gurley, he's one of the most talented cover designers around and also a damn-fine writer himself. Jason no longer designs covers but has agreed to come out of retirement (much like our protagonist, Sir Wulfric) to design the cover for Abomination. I'm excited to work with Jason on a final cover for the book in collaboration with readers.
Production schedule
Abomination is fully written. Once funded, we're going to do a quick copy edit, work on cover design (something we've held off on because we want to go through the process with our backers and readers) and get the book into your hands as quickly as possible. Hard copies will hopefully ship within a few months, with the digital version much sooner than that.
